On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:41:03 +0700, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> I am not sure, but I think we bought it on Thursdays. With the
> schedule starting Saturdays. Or thereabouts. Here in Thailand, we have
> monthly schedules for cable, and daily (in the newspapers) for
> terrestrial TV.
So you see my po
Hello Avi,
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 05:05:30 +0200 GMT (29/11/2004, 10:05 +0700 GMT),
Avi Yashar wrote:
[ISO]
>> Their intention is to create standards which will lead to easy
>> understanding across cultures. For example in the air transport
>> industry, everybody knows that "day 1" is Monday, and no
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:30:34 +0700, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> Sunday being the first day of the week is also what I grew up with. It
> turned out that most countries use another way of counting, namely
> starting with Monday. I have no religious association with any day of
> the week, and since Mo
Hello Avi,
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:09:43 +0200 GMT (12/11/2004, 02:09 +0700 GMT),
Avi Yashar wrote:
AY> Thomas, if we are going to get down to such detail, then in Hebrew,
AY> Sunday is "Yom Rishon" (First Day).
Sunday being the first day of the week is also what I grew up with. It
turned out tha
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:18:13 +0700, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> In Chinese, Monday is called "Day-one", Tuesday is "Day-two". There
> is an exception to the rule on the weekend, I forgot.
Thomas, if we are going to get down to such detail, then in Hebrew,
Sunday is "Yom Rishon" (First Day). The nu
Hello Maurice,
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:56:45 +0100 GMT (10/11/2004, 13:56 +0700 GMT),
Maurice Snellen wrote:
MS> In most germanic languages and even in English (anglo-saxon), the
MS> names of the days are derived from nature and scandinavian gods.
MS> Other languages may have the same, but I'm not
On Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 17:24 (which was Tuesday, November 9,
2004 at 16:24 where I am) Avi Yashar wrote:
> I do *not* think that Ritlabs should follow the ISO standard on this
> point. I personally think that the ISO standard here is entirely
> philistine and likely to offend the sensibil
Hello Avi!
On Tuesday, November 09, 2004, 4:23 PM, you wrote:
MB>> Well, as Stuart Hemming said, it's time to put it on BT. So,
MB>> who's going to do it and is it a Wish?
AY> The spelling is a mistake. ...
The spelling has been corrected in v. 3.0.2.6 .
So the programmers are reading us.
AY>
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:18:50 -0600, Mary Bull wrote:
> Well, as Stuart Hemming said, it's time to put it on BT. So, who's
> going to do it and is it a Wish?
The spelling is a mistake. The numbering seems to be a limitation (and
an annoyance). But as spelling and many of the various GUI goofs are
s
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:45:45 +0100, Dierk Haasis wrote:
> Since Christian Sabbath has - purely to distinguish oneself from Jews
> - shifted from Saturday to Sunday. As I wrote (and was obviously
> misunderstood) the last day of the week is the resting day!
Dierk, I think this discussion tends to g
On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 10:21:35 AM, Stuart Hemming wrote:
> Let's just post a wish on BT for it to be configurable and move on.
I guess the world could be a better place if everyone could decide
they were ready to move on at the same time.
--
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Hello Dimitry!
On Tuesday, November 09, 2004, 12:44 PM, you wrote:
DA> How much more plain would you like it? :)
:)
DA> Anyway, it should be configurable of course, since this tends to
DA> differ by country, AFAICS.
Well, as Stuart Hemming said, it's time to put it on BT. So, who's
going to do
On 2004-11-09 at 16:57:38 Mary Bull wrote:
> In my fundamentalist Christian upbringing I was taught that Sunday is
> the first day of the week. A scripture was quoted to justify having
> the communion service on Sunday:
I'm not a Christian (IANAC :), but Genesis 2 seems to say (after the
creation
Quoting Mary Bull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello Dierk!
>
> On Tuesday, November 09, 2004, 9:45 AM, you wrote:
--snipped-
> I just thought that those to whom it does seem important
> should have a
> choice. As I said to Avi, just now. :)
>
What I determine to be said
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MB> Do you not agree?
No not really. The point was covered when someone suggested that the
start of the week should be configurable.
Maybe I'm being short but I've just lived through this same discussion
on my online conferencing system about their ca
Hello Stuart!
On Tuesday, November 09, 2004, 10:00 AM, you wrote:
SH> Fascinating as this is, it's wandered a bit OT hasn't it?
No, I don't think so, myself. It's the philosophical underpinning as
to what should be available in The Bat!'s Scheduler.
Do you not agree?
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Best regards,
Mary
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Fascinating as this is, it's wandered a bit OT hasn't it?
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Hello Dierk!
On Tuesday, November 09, 2004, 9:45 AM, you wrote:
AV>> Mary, of course, I agree. And that was why in my very first
AV>> posting on this subject I wrote: "Since when has 'manday'
AV>> (misspelled and wrong case) become the first day of the week and
AV>> 'sunday' (wrong case) become t
Hello Avi!
On Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 4:24:56 PM you wrote:
> Mary, of course, I agree. And that was why in my very first posting on
> this subject I wrote: "Since when has 'manday' (misspelled and wrong
> case) become the first
> day of the week and 'sunday' (wrong case) become the seventh
Hello Avi!
On Tuesday, November 09, 2004, 9:24 AM, you wrote:
AY>>> ... But, despite ISO's standard, any decent scheduler - and
AY>>> let's not forget that all of this discussion about a TB setting
AY>>> under Preferences is in connection with the TB scheduler - makes
AY>>> allowances for those d
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 07:01:42 -0600, Mary Bull wrote:
> AY> ... But, despite ISO's standard, any decent scheduler - and let's
> AY> not forget that all of this discussion about a TB setting under
> AY> Preferences is in connection with the TB scheduler - makes
> AY> allowances for those differences.
Hello Avi!
On Monday, November 08, 2004, 6:25 PM, you wrote:
AY> ... But, despite ISO's standard, any decent scheduler - and let's
AY> not forget that all of this discussion about a TB setting under
AY> Preferences is in connection with the TB scheduler - makes
AY> allowances for those difference
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